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video: fbdev: geode gxfb: use ioremap_wc() for framebuffer

The driver doesn't use mtrr_add() or arch_phys_wc_add() but
since we know the framebuffer is isolated already on an
ioremap() we can take advantage of write combining for
performance where possible.

In this case there are a few motivations for this:

a) Take advantage of PAT when available

b) Help with the goal of eventually using _PAGE_CACHE_UC over
_PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS on x86 on ioremap_nocache() (see commit
de33c442e titled "x86 PAT: fix performance drop for glx,
use UC minus for ioremap(), ioremap_nocache() and
pci_mmap_page_range()")

Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Cc: linux-geode@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>

authored by

Luis R. Rodriguez and committed by
Tomi Valkeinen
9ccfc4aa 1e43a203

+2 -1
+2 -1
drivers/video/fbdev/geode/gxfb_core.c
··· 263 263 264 264 info->fix.smem_start = pci_resource_start(dev, 0); 265 265 info->fix.smem_len = vram ? vram : gx_frame_buffer_size(); 266 - info->screen_base = ioremap(info->fix.smem_start, info->fix.smem_len); 266 + info->screen_base = ioremap_wc(info->fix.smem_start, 267 + info->fix.smem_len); 267 268 if (!info->screen_base) 268 269 return -ENOMEM; 269 270